Savagery and colonialism in the Indian Ocean
Subtitle: power, pleasure, and the Andaman Islanders
By: Satadru Sen.
Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780415497824; 9780203863084
Subjects: Racism -- India -- Andaman Islands -- History; Indigenous peoples -- India -- Andaman Islands -- History; Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- India -- Andaman Islands -- History; British -- India -- Andaman Islands -- Attitudes -- History; Power (Social sciences) -- India -- Andaman Islands -- History; Pleasure -- Social aspects -- India -- Andaman Islands -- History; Andaman Islands (India) -- Colonization; Andaman Islands (India) -- Race relations; Andaman Islands (India) -- Social conditions; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racializing the Andamanese; title: Counterinsurgency and the jungle; title: Clearings of the kidnapped; title: The dying savage : work, medicine, and Andamanese extinction; title: Another jungle : natives and savages; title: Savage pleasures : the erotics of the Andamanese body; title: Conclusion: Beyond the clearing.